November, 2019

MR RAOUL GUSTAF WALLENBURG AND COUNT GREVE FOLKE BERNADOTTE – TWO ILL-USED SWEDISH DIPLOMATS by Donal Kennedy

Both men saved innocent human lives during the Second  World War. Bernadotte was tasked with arranging exchanges of Allied and Axis military prisoners.. He also secured the release of civilians from German concentration camps, saving their lives. Hundreds of Jews were amongst those saved. As a humanitarian and a human being his name deserves remembrance. […]

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On the implementation of the GFA by Colin Harvey

Joint Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement Opening statement by Professor Colin Harvey, School of Law, Queen’s University Belfast 7th November 2019 Introduction Thank you to the Chair and Committee members for the invitation to address you today. The focus of this opening statement is on the questions that have arisen, in […]

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Andrew, Boris and Jeremy

Isn’t it odd?  Early last week Prince Andrew was interviewed  on telly. The result was as near to a train-wreck as most of us want to get.  Andrew’s view of his paeodophilic friend Jeffrey Eptstein was that he had engaged in behaviour unbecoming. He claimed that he’d never met the young aged  seventeen who claimed […]

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THE SUNDAY TIMES (LONDON) ALLEGES BRITISH FORCES’ ATROCITIES IN AFGHANISTAN AND IRAQ AND CONDEMNS THEIR COVER UP BY SENIOR OFFICERS AND GOVERNMENT MINISTERS by Donal Kennedy

The British edition of the Sunday Times (17 November 2019) devotes two Broadsheet pages plus much of its front page plus an Editorial. which, if true, should bury the forces concerned, their political directors and media abettors in infamy. In the 1940s some Nazis and their collaborators, guilty of similar crimes were, deservedly, hanged, albeit […]

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Anna Lo and the Alliance Perfection

 OK, hands up if you remember Anna Lo?  It’s not that long ago – in 2014, to be exact – when she shot into the headlines. In the course of an interview with that Venerable Organ The Irish News, she declared that she was “anti-colonial” and that the partition of Ireland was  “artificial”. What’s more,  […]

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Taking a pop at the poppy

There’s a man writing in the Letters column of the Irish Times this morning, lamenting that the IT’s  columnist Miriam Lord has poked fun at the number of people in Britain who wear poppies. The letter man points to the Enniskillen bombing,  and remembers how “Senator John Robb wore a poppy in the senate and […]

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